Parlour Games

Revision as of 14:31, 22 December 2016

Synopsis

A (fairly) regular strand featuring various different panel games, produced by Neil Munro, who also usually set the questions and sometimes hosted.

• Reactions (Regional Programme, 14 May 1939), host Freddie Grisewood.
  • Contestants attempt to identify famous people from the fewest possible clues.
• Noah's Ark (Regional Programme, 16 July 1939), host Freddie Grisewood.
  • Contestants identify songs, poems and quotations featuring the names of animals.
• Puzzle Corner (Regional Programme, 30 July 1939), host Lionel Gamlin.
• Memory Test (National Programme, 13 August 1939), host Freddie Grisewood.
  • Audio version of an observation quiz.
• Adverbs (Home Service, 7 September 1939)
  • One player asks questions, which are answered in the way suggested by a particular adverb. The player has to guess the adverb.
• My Aunt Went To Town (Home Service, 10 September 1939)
  • A version of the "I Packed My Bag" memory game.
• Proverbs (Home Service, 17 September 1939)
  • The individual words of a proverb are hidden in the answers to successive questions. The player has to work out the proverb.
• A.R.P. General Knowledge Test (Home Service, 24 September 1939)
  • Quiz about the work of the Air Raid Precautions service.
• Coffee Pots (Home Service, 1 October 1939), host David Miller
  • A version of Twenty Questions.
• Ghost Spelling (Home Service, 8 October 1939), host Norman Shelley
• Word Splits (Home Service, 15 October 1939), host David Miller
  • Players make the most and longest words out of the letters of another.
• Salted Almonds (Home Service, 5 November 1939), host David Miller
• Christmas Shopping (Home Service, 17 December 1939), host David Miller
• Word Squares (Home Service, 28 January 1940), host David Miller
• Emergencies (Home Service, 18 February 1940), host David Miller
• Free Association (Forces Programme, 23 February 1940), host David Miller
  • Word association as per Mallet's Mallet.
• How, When and Where (Forces Programme, 5 March 1940), host David Miller
• I Went Sight Seeing (Forces Programme, 11 March 1940), host David Miller
  • Another "I packed my bag" variant.
• Musical Proverbs (Forces Programme, 22 March 1940), host David Miller
• Adverbs (Forces Programme, 27 March 1940), host David Miller
• Alibi (Home Service, 31 March 1940), host Freddie Grisewood
• Yes, Mmmm or No (Forces Programme, 1 April 1940), host David Miller
  • The "Yes/No interlude", some years before Michael Miles made it his own.
• Ask It Basket (Forces Programme, 4 April 1940), host David Miller
• Word Snooker (Forces Programme, 9 April 1940), host David Miller
  • Take a word, change a letter, do it again and you've got a chain! That's how you play Word Snooker...
• Mystery Cruise (Forces Programme, 10 April 1940), hosts David Miller and Eddie Pola
  • Contestants try to identify mystery items packed for a cruise.
• Alliteration (Forces Programme, 17 April 1940), host David Miller
  • Making up sentences that are alliterative.
• Truth (Home Service, 21 April 1940), host David Miller
• Reactions (Forces Programme, 22 April 1940), host David Miller
• Paint Box (Forces Programme, 2 April 1940), host David Miller
  • Naming songs with colours in the title.
• I Hide and I Find (Forces Programme, 17 May 1940), host David Miller
• Telegrams (Home Service, 26 May 1940), host David Miller
• Truth (Forces Programme, 2 June 1940), host David Miller
• Ships (Forces Programme, 10 June 1940), host Raymond Glendenning
  • Involved alliteration somehow.
• Limerick Race (Forces Programme, 26 June 1940), host Freddie Grisewood
• How Many? (Forces programme, 17 July 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
  • Quiz on a numerical theme.
• Rhyme, Initials, Celebrities' Names (Forces Programme, 25 July 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
  • Identifying celebrities from limerick clues.
• Melody Match (Forces Programme, 29 July 1940)
• Small Ads (Forces Programme, 16 August 1940), host Freddie Grisewood
• The Working Man's Signature Tune (1 September 1940), host Reginald Foort
• Rime Time (Forces Programme, 26 August 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
• As Quick as You Can (Forces Programme, 3 November 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
• Inanimate Animals (Forces Programme, 1 December 1940), host Lionel Gamlin
• Word Snakes (Home Service, 8 December 1940), host not known
• That Name Suggests (Home Service, 5 January 1941), host Lionel Gamlin
• Backward Ballads (Forces Programme, 28 January 1941), host Lionel Gamlin
• Rime Time (Forces Programme, 1 March 1941), host Freddie Grisewood
• Hesitations (Forces Programme, 28 March 1941), host not known
• Can You Beat It? (Forces Programme, 29 March 1941), host Carroll Levis
• Free Association (Home Service, 29 March 1941)
• Inanimate Animals (Home Service, 20 April 1941)
• Progressive Thought (Home Service, 27 April 1941)
• Snap! (Home Service, 18 May 1941)
• Rime Time (Home Service, 17 August 1941)
• Rhymes With Reason (Forces Programme, 27 September 1941)
• Inventors In The Dictionary (Forces Programme, 12 October 1941), host Neil Munro
• The Implausible Punster (Home Service, 22 November 1941), host Neil Munro
• Rime Time (Forces Programme, 20 December 1941), host Neil Munro
• Hidden Personalities (Home Service, 25 December 1941), host Neil Munro
• Sing on the Dotted Line (Home Service, 26 December 1941), host Neil Munro
• I Love My Love With A Song (Home Service, 26 January 1942), host Neil Munro

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